1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donmez field, which holds over 100 (T) trillion cubic feet in gas reserves - about half of the country's total natural gas yield - to Afghanistan and Pakistan and, possibly, India.The draft of a memorandum of understanding was finalised in Islamabad earlier in the week by ministers representing the gas and oil ministries for the three countries.
A final agreement is expected to be signed by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov, Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat NiyazovTurkmenbashi. His personality cult and photograph appear everywhere; even at a folk music competition. He rejects a multi-party democracy as too unstable. We interview Turkmenistan's VicePremier and look inside a country shaking off its communist isolation.
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English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The former Soviet republic may have huge oil reserves and the world's third biggest gas fields - but it has one major disadvantage: getting its fuel to markets.
Unlike other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is thought largely inaccessible by Western oil companies and there are richer picking elsewhere.
Its further hindered by its outdated infrastructure; all pipelines point north, a legacy from Soviet days.
Due to a dispute with the Russian oil company Gazprom, Moscow has now closed the pipeline and Turkmenistan can no longer transport its gas north.
Transport through Iran to the south is also a problem because of U-S imposed sanctions.
And the current instability in Afghanistan led the U-S company Unocal to recently shelve its gas pipeline through to Pakistan.
Turkmenistan it appears is hindered on all sides.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can either ship gas south through Afghanistan or through Iran or up north through Russia and all of those have political if not natural barriers to the markets that can pay money for the gas."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Barber, President of Unocal, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
There are proposals afoot to build a pipeline under the Caspian and also east through China - but even if these do come about they won't happen for at least 10 years.
After independence in 1992 President Saparmurad Niyazov, in anticipation of an oil boom, promised every farmer a Mercedes Benz.
Instead wages have not been paid for three to four months and funding to hospitals and universities have been cut so dramatically that departments have closed.
While most people struggle to live, the authoritarian president is spending vast amounts of money on prestigious projects.
Later this month Turkmenistan's very own "statue of liberty" will be completed to coincide with the state's independence day.
A revolving statue of Niyazov will top this stand.
SOUNDBITE:
"In the meantime Turkmenistan remains the poorest out of all Caspian oil states with the shortest life expectancy among all Soviet republics and a complete dependancy of its economy on potential gas exports. Its industry is not developed, its agriculture is very poor, and the general state of the economy is just terrible in the current situation, so hopes for the oil boom and gas is really very much with the current government is hoping for is that is not to become reality the future of Turkmenistan would be gradual descent into an Afghan situation where there is a growing inequalities between the corrupt and the rich elite and the very poor."
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
There are fears that Afghanistan's civil war could overspill into Turkmenistan.
SOUNDBITE:
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
If Turkmenistan is to see financial growth then improved relations between America and Iran may be its only hope.
SOUNDBITE:
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Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.
Under the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.
Environmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.
They are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.Broken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.
But this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.
The ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes. Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else. Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on. So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of AzerbaijanGreen MovementScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.
Although the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.
Local environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this."
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement
One of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.
Contaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.
SUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation
Off-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.
During the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.
Some have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.
Divers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.
Now a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.
The CaspianEnvironmentProgramme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.
It also involves state bodies from each of the countries surrounding the Caspian.
Once the investigation is completed, work will begin on trying to clean up the sea.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The final outcome that we hope for is that there will be an agreement with the five countries on how to further protect the sea and improve the environment of the sea."
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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to build a gas plant industrial complex.”
With a population of just five million and 90 percent of its land covered by desert, more than half of Turkmenistan's GDP comes from hydrocarbon gas like natural gas.
A former Soviet Republic that gained independence in 1991, Turkmenistan is trying to reduce its reliance on Russia, opening a new pipeline to China in 2009, and industrializing through infrastructure building and gas plant projects, like this one between Korea, Turkmenistan, and Japan that started in Kiyanly in 2015.
“From design, engineering, construction to commissioning, we planned each stage in advance to make sure this mega project runs smoothly and safely. Once complete, the plant will produce around 50 tons of gas a year, contributing at least 700 to 800 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's economy."
Three kilometers in width and length, at the gas plant site, over twelve-thousand workers from Hyundai Engineering and Turkmenistan's state-run Turkmengas work from Monday to Saturday.
The extremely hot summer weather and occasional sandstorms make working conditions difficult and unpredictable, but seeing each other almost every day, the two countries' people have developed a solid working relationship.
"Working for the last two-and-a-half years with the Hyundai people, who have technological expertise and a great work ethic has been a wonderful experience."
The three billion dollar gas plant project is scheduled to be completed by next year, and Hyundai engineering has already started the handover process, with training programs for local engineers underway.
But it's not an end, rather a new beginning that will likely open up new opportunities for the two countries, as Turkmenistan aims to diversify its oil and gas industries, and Korea seeks to find a new growth engine abroad.
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News, Kiyanly, Turkmenistan.
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Afghan and Turkmen leaders arrive for landmark oil summit

1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donmez field, which holds over 100 (T) trillion cubic feet in gas reserves - about half of the country's total natural gas yield - to Afghanistan and Pakistan and, possibly, India.The draft of a memorandum of understanding was finalised in Islamabad earlier in the week by ministers representing the gas and oil ministries for the three countries.
A final agreement is expected to be signed by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov, Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
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11:53

Turkmenistan's Untapped Potential

Turkmenistan's Untapped Potential

Turkmenistan's Untapped Potential

Black Gold (July 1995)
Turkmenistan's massive oil and gas reserves are as yet untapped.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat NiyazovTurkmenbashi. His personality cult and photograph appear everywhere; even at a folk music competition. He rejects a multi-party democracy as too unstable. We interview Turkmenistan's VicePremier and look inside a country shaking off its communist isolation.
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3:46

TURKMENISTAN: OIL & GAS EXPORTS HINDERED BY LOCATION OF FIELDS

TURKMENISTAN: OIL & GAS EXPORTS HINDERED BY LOCATION OF FIELDS

TURKMENISTAN: OIL & GAS EXPORTS HINDERED BY LOCATION OF FIELDS

English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The former Soviet republic may have huge oil reserves and the world's third biggest gas fields - but it has one major disadvantage: getting its fuel to markets.
Unlike other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is thought largely inaccessible by Western oil companies and there are richer picking elsewhere.
Its further hindered by its outdated infrastructure; all pipelines point north, a legacy from Soviet days.
Due to a dispute with the Russian oil company Gazprom, Moscow has now closed the pipeline and Turkmenistan can no longer transport its gas north.
Transport through Iran to the south is also a problem because of U-S imposed sanctions.
And the current instability in Afghanistan led the U-S company Unocal to recently shelve its gas pipeline through to Pakistan.
Turkmenistan it appears is hindered on all sides.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can either ship gas south through Afghanistan or through Iran or up north through Russia and all of those have political if not natural barriers to the markets that can pay money for the gas."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Barber, President of Unocal, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
There are proposals afoot to build a pipeline under the Caspian and also east through China - but even if these do come about they won't happen for at least 10 years.
After independence in 1992 President Saparmurad Niyazov, in anticipation of an oil boom, promised every farmer a Mercedes Benz.
Instead wages have not been paid for three to four months and funding to hospitals and universities have been cut so dramatically that departments have closed.
While most people struggle to live, the authoritarian president is spending vast amounts of money on prestigious projects.
Later this month Turkmenistan's very own "statue of liberty" will be completed to coincide with the state's independence day.
A revolving statue of Niyazov will top this stand.
SOUNDBITE:
"In the meantime Turkmenistan remains the poorest out of all Caspian oil states with the shortest life expectancy among all Soviet republics and a complete dependancy of its economy on potential gas exports. Its industry is not developed, its agriculture is very poor, and the general state of the economy is just terrible in the current situation, so hopes for the oil boom and gas is really very much with the current government is hoping for is that is not to become reality the future of Turkmenistan would be gradual descent into an Afghan situation where there is a growing inequalities between the corrupt and the rich elite and the very poor."
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
There are fears that Afghanistan's civil war could overspill into Turkmenistan.
SOUNDBITE:
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
If Turkmenistan is to see financial growth then improved relations between America and Iran may be its only hope.
SOUNDBITE:
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AZERBAIJAN/TURKMENISTAN: OIL PRODUCTION POLLUTES CASPIAN SEA AREA

English/Nat
Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.
Under the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.
Environmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.
They are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.Broken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.
But this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.
The ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes. Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else. Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on. So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of AzerbaijanGreen MovementScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.
Although the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.
Local environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this."
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement
One of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.
Contaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.
SUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation
Off-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.
During the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.
Some have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.
Divers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.
Now a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.
The CaspianEnvironmentProgramme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.
It also involves state bodies from each of the countries surrounding the Caspian.
Once the investigation is completed, work will begin on trying to clean up the sea.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The final outcome that we hope for is that there will be an agreement with the five countries on how to further protect the sea and improve the environment of the sea."
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4:05

USAID and Chevron Seminar on Local Content for the Turkmen Oil and Gas Sector

USAID and Chevron Seminar on Local Content for the Turkmen Oil and Gas Sector

USAID and Chevron Seminar on Local Content for the Turkmen Oil and Gas Sector

Oil Turkmenistan - Why invest in 2015

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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to build a gas plant industrial complex.”
With a population of just five million and 90 percent of its land covered by desert, more than half of Turkmenistan's GDP comes from hydrocarbon gas like natural gas.
A former Soviet Republic that gained independence in 1991, Turkmenistan is trying to reduce its reliance on Russia, opening a new pipeline to China in 2009, and industrializing through infrastructure building and gas plant projects, like this one between Korea, Turkmenistan, and Japan that started in Kiyanly in 2015.
“From design, engineering, construction to commissioning, we planned each stage in advance to make sure this mega project runs smoothly and safely. Once complete, the plant will produce around 50 tons of gas a year, contributing at least 700 to 800 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's economy."
Three kilometers in width and length, at the gas plant site, over twelve-thousand workers from Hyundai Engineering and Turkmenistan's state-run Turkmengas work from Monday to Saturday.
The extremely hot summer weather and occasional sandstorms make working conditions difficult and unpredictable, but seeing each other almost every day, the two countries' people have developed a solid working relationship.
"Working for the last two-and-a-half years with the Hyundai people, who have technological expertise and a great work ethic has been a wonderful experience."
The three billion dollar gas plant project is scheduled to be completed by next year, and Hyundai engineering has already started the handover process, with training programs for local engineers underway.
But it's not an end, rather a new beginning that will likely open up new opportunities for the two countries, as Turkmenistan aims to diversify its oil and gas industries, and Korea seeks to find a new growth engine abroad.
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News, Kiyanly, Turkmenistan.
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Afghan and Turkmen leaders arrive for landmark oil summit

1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donme...

published: 21 Jul 2015

Turkmenistan's Untapped Potential

Black Gold (July 1995)
Turkmenistan's massive oil and gas reserves are as yet untapped.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov Tur...

published: 07 Aug 2007

TURKMENISTAN: OIL & GAS EXPORTS HINDERED BY LOCATION OF FIELDS

English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The for...

published: 21 Jul 2015

BBC News Rare look inside Turkmenistan oil and gas conference

AZERBAIJAN/TURKMENISTAN: OIL PRODUCTION POLLUTES CASPIAN SEA AREA

English/Nat
Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens bl...

published: 30 Jul 2015

USAID and Chevron Seminar on Local Content for the Turkmen Oil and Gas Sector

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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to bui...

Qədim Türkmən rəqsi Güştdəpti. Ancient Turkmen dance Gushtdepti

Turkmenistan visiting: start the cooking oil project

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1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donmez field, which holds over 100 (T) trillion cubic feet in gas reserves - about half of the country's total natural gas yield - to Afghanistan and Pakistan and, possibly, India.The draft of a memorandum of understanding was finalised in Islamabad earlier in the week by ministers representing the gas and oil ministries for the three countries.
A final agreement is expected to be signed by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov, Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
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1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donmez field, which holds over 100 (T) trillion cubic feet in gas reserves - about half of the country's total natural gas yield - to Afghanistan and Pakistan and, possibly, India.The draft of a memorandum of understanding was finalised in Islamabad earlier in the week by ministers representing the gas and oil ministries for the three countries.
A final agreement is expected to be signed by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov, Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
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Black Gold (July 1995)
Turkmenistan's massive oil and gas reserves are as yet untapped.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat NiyazovTurkmenbashi. His personality cult and photograph appear everywhere; even at a folk music competition. He rejects a multi-party democracy as too unstable. We interview Turkmenistan's VicePremier and look inside a country shaking off its communist isolation.
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Black Gold (July 1995)
Turkmenistan's massive oil and gas reserves are as yet untapped.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat NiyazovTurkmenbashi. His personality cult and photograph appear everywhere; even at a folk music competition. He rejects a multi-party democracy as too unstable. We interview Turkmenistan's VicePremier and look inside a country shaking off its communist isolation.
For more information, visit https://www.journeyman.tv/film/133
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English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The former Soviet republic may have huge oil reserves and the world's third biggest gas fields - but it has one major disadvantage: getting its fuel to markets.
Unlike other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is thought largely inaccessible by Western oil companies and there are richer picking elsewhere.
Its further hindered by its outdated infrastructure; all pipelines point north, a legacy from Soviet days.
Due to a dispute with the Russian oil company Gazprom, Moscow has now closed the pipeline and Turkmenistan can no longer transport its gas north.
Transport through Iran to the south is also a problem because of U-S imposed sanctions.
And the current instability in Afghanistan led the U-S company Unocal to recently shelve its gas pipeline through to Pakistan.
Turkmenistan it appears is hindered on all sides.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can either ship gas south through Afghanistan or through Iran or up north through Russia and all of those have political if not natural barriers to the markets that can pay money for the gas."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Barber, President of Unocal, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
There are proposals afoot to build a pipeline under the Caspian and also east through China - but even if these do come about they won't happen for at least 10 years.
After independence in 1992 President Saparmurad Niyazov, in anticipation of an oil boom, promised every farmer a Mercedes Benz.
Instead wages have not been paid for three to four months and funding to hospitals and universities have been cut so dramatically that departments have closed.
While most people struggle to live, the authoritarian president is spending vast amounts of money on prestigious projects.
Later this month Turkmenistan's very own "statue of liberty" will be completed to coincide with the state's independence day.
A revolving statue of Niyazov will top this stand.
SOUNDBITE:
"In the meantime Turkmenistan remains the poorest out of all Caspian oil states with the shortest life expectancy among all Soviet republics and a complete dependancy of its economy on potential gas exports. Its industry is not developed, its agriculture is very poor, and the general state of the economy is just terrible in the current situation, so hopes for the oil boom and gas is really very much with the current government is hoping for is that is not to become reality the future of Turkmenistan would be gradual descent into an Afghan situation where there is a growing inequalities between the corrupt and the rich elite and the very poor."
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
There are fears that Afghanistan's civil war could overspill into Turkmenistan.
SOUNDBITE:
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
If Turkmenistan is to see financial growth then improved relations between America and Iran may be its only hope.
SOUNDBITE:
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English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The former Soviet republic may have huge oil reserves and the world's third biggest gas fields - but it has one major disadvantage: getting its fuel to markets.
Unlike other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is thought largely inaccessible by Western oil companies and there are richer picking elsewhere.
Its further hindered by its outdated infrastructure; all pipelines point north, a legacy from Soviet days.
Due to a dispute with the Russian oil company Gazprom, Moscow has now closed the pipeline and Turkmenistan can no longer transport its gas north.
Transport through Iran to the south is also a problem because of U-S imposed sanctions.
And the current instability in Afghanistan led the U-S company Unocal to recently shelve its gas pipeline through to Pakistan.
Turkmenistan it appears is hindered on all sides.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can either ship gas south through Afghanistan or through Iran or up north through Russia and all of those have political if not natural barriers to the markets that can pay money for the gas."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Barber, President of Unocal, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
There are proposals afoot to build a pipeline under the Caspian and also east through China - but even if these do come about they won't happen for at least 10 years.
After independence in 1992 President Saparmurad Niyazov, in anticipation of an oil boom, promised every farmer a Mercedes Benz.
Instead wages have not been paid for three to four months and funding to hospitals and universities have been cut so dramatically that departments have closed.
While most people struggle to live, the authoritarian president is spending vast amounts of money on prestigious projects.
Later this month Turkmenistan's very own "statue of liberty" will be completed to coincide with the state's independence day.
A revolving statue of Niyazov will top this stand.
SOUNDBITE:
"In the meantime Turkmenistan remains the poorest out of all Caspian oil states with the shortest life expectancy among all Soviet republics and a complete dependancy of its economy on potential gas exports. Its industry is not developed, its agriculture is very poor, and the general state of the economy is just terrible in the current situation, so hopes for the oil boom and gas is really very much with the current government is hoping for is that is not to become reality the future of Turkmenistan would be gradual descent into an Afghan situation where there is a growing inequalities between the corrupt and the rich elite and the very poor."
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
There are fears that Afghanistan's civil war could overspill into Turkmenistan.
SOUNDBITE:
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
If Turkmenistan is to see financial growth then improved relations between America and Iran may be its only hope.
SOUNDBITE:
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/01474bb444a9b4122f2d1d50ec40176b
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English/Nat
Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.
Under the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.
Environmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.
They are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.Broken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.
But this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.
The ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes. Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else. Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on. So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of AzerbaijanGreen MovementScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.
Although the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.
Local environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this."
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement
One of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.
Contaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.
SUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation
Off-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.
During the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.
Some have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.
Divers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.
Now a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.
The CaspianEnvironmentProgramme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.
It also involves state bodies from each of the countries surrounding the Caspian.
Once the investigation is completed, work will begin on trying to clean up the sea.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The final outcome that we hope for is that there will be an agreement with the five countries on how to further protect the sea and improve the environment of the sea."
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/33bce540d8e492829e4d43d64635fa16
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English/Nat
Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.
Under the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.
Environmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.
They are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.Broken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.
But this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.
The ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes. Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else. Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on. So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of AzerbaijanGreen MovementScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.
Although the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.
Local environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this."
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement
One of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.
Contaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.
SUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation
Off-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.
During the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.
Some have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.
Divers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.
Now a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.
The CaspianEnvironmentProgramme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.
It also involves state bodies from each of the countries surrounding the Caspian.
Once the investigation is completed, work will begin on trying to clean up the sea.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The final outcome that we hope for is that there will be an agreement with the five countries on how to further protect the sea and improve the environment of the sea."
You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/33bce540d8e492829e4d43d64635fa16
Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

Oil Turkmenistan - Why invest in 2015

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About The Video:
We believe that complex financial data could become more approachable using friendly motion-graphic representation combined with an accurate selection of financial data. To guarantee the most effective information prospective we drew inspiration from Benjamin Graham’s book: “The Intelligent Investor”, a pillar of financial philosophy.
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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in na...

한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to build a gas plant industrial complex.”
With a population of just five million and 90 percent of its land covered by desert, more than half of Turkmenistan's GDP comes from hydrocarbon gas like natural gas.
A former Soviet Republic that gained independence in 1991, Turkmenistan is trying to reduce its reliance on Russia, opening a new pipeline to China in 2009, and industrializing through infrastructure building and gas plant projects, like this one between Korea, Turkmenistan, and Japan that started in Kiyanly in 2015.
“From design, engineering, construction to commissioning, we planned each stage in advance to make sure this mega project runs smoothly and safely. Once complete, the plant will produce around 50 tons of gas a year, contributing at least 700 to 800 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's economy."
Three kilometers in width and length, at the gas plant site, over twelve-thousand workers from Hyundai Engineering and Turkmenistan's state-run Turkmengas work from Monday to Saturday.
The extremely hot summer weather and occasional sandstorms make working conditions difficult and unpredictable, but seeing each other almost every day, the two countries' people have developed a solid working relationship.
"Working for the last two-and-a-half years with the Hyundai people, who have technological expertise and a great work ethic has been a wonderful experience."
The three billion dollar gas plant project is scheduled to be completed by next year, and Hyundai engineering has already started the handover process, with training programs for local engineers underway.
But it's not an end, rather a new beginning that will likely open up new opportunities for the two countries, as Turkmenistan aims to diversify its oil and gas industries, and Korea seeks to find a new growth engine abroad.
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News, Kiyanly, Turkmenistan.
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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to build a gas plant industrial complex.”
With a population of just five million and 90 percent of its land covered by desert, more than half of Turkmenistan's GDP comes from hydrocarbon gas like natural gas.
A former Soviet Republic that gained independence in 1991, Turkmenistan is trying to reduce its reliance on Russia, opening a new pipeline to China in 2009, and industrializing through infrastructure building and gas plant projects, like this one between Korea, Turkmenistan, and Japan that started in Kiyanly in 2015.
“From design, engineering, construction to commissioning, we planned each stage in advance to make sure this mega project runs smoothly and safely. Once complete, the plant will produce around 50 tons of gas a year, contributing at least 700 to 800 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's economy."
Three kilometers in width and length, at the gas plant site, over twelve-thousand workers from Hyundai Engineering and Turkmenistan's state-run Turkmengas work from Monday to Saturday.
The extremely hot summer weather and occasional sandstorms make working conditions difficult and unpredictable, but seeing each other almost every day, the two countries' people have developed a solid working relationship.
"Working for the last two-and-a-half years with the Hyundai people, who have technological expertise and a great work ethic has been a wonderful experience."
The three billion dollar gas plant project is scheduled to be completed by next year, and Hyundai engineering has already started the handover process, with training programs for local engineers underway.
But it's not an end, rather a new beginning that will likely open up new opportunities for the two countries, as Turkmenistan aims to diversify its oil and gas industries, and Korea seeks to find a new growth engine abroad.
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News, Kiyanly, Turkmenistan.
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Afghan and Turkmen leaders arrive for landmark oil summit

1. Aeroplane taxiing
2. Officials waiting on runway
3. Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai stepping down from plane
4. Cutaway police
5. Various of Karzai and Pakistan official shaking hands, walk away
6. Various of car leaving
7. Turkmenistan plane taxing
8. Various of scene
9. Turkmenistan PresidentSaparmurat Niyazov stepping down from plane
10. Various of Turkmenistan and Pakistan officials walking away, posing for cameras
11. Wide of scene
12. Cars drive away
STORYLINE:
The leaders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan arrived in Pakistan on Wednesday to participate in a landmark summit and sign an agreement to build and maintain a one thousand-460-kilometre (907-mile) gas pipeline.
The pipeline would supply natural gas from Turkmenistan's huge Dauletabad-Donmez field, which holds over 100 (T) trillion cubic feet in gas reserves - about half of the country's total natural gas yield - to Afghanistan and Pakistan and, possibly, India.The draft of a memorandum of understanding was finalised in Islamabad earlier in the week by ministers representing the gas and oil ministries for the three countries.
A final agreement is expected to be signed by Turkmenistan President Saparmurat Niyazov, Afghan interim head Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.
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Turkmenistan's Untapped Potential

Black Gold (July 1995)
Turkmenistan's massive oil and gas reserves are as yet untapped.
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Credited with the potential to become another Kuwait there is one main stumbling block on Turkmenistan's road to instant wealth; it can't sell its oil to the rest of the world. International sanctions prevent the building of a pipeline through Iran and into Turkey. The USAAmbassador backs up claims that the country has a huge unrealised oil potential. Otherwise Turkmenistan's main exports are camels and pedigree race horses - often given as gifts to visiting dignitaries. One man already exploiting Turkmenistan's oil potential is former communist leader and self-styled PresidentSaparmurat NiyazovTurkmenbashi. His personality cult and photograph appear everywhere; even at a folk music competition. He rejects a multi-party democracy as too unstable. We interview Turkmenistan's VicePremier and look inside a country shaking off its communist isolation.
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TURKMENISTAN: OIL & GAS EXPORTS HINDERED BY LOCATION OF FIELDS

English/Nat
The former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan is reputed to hold the world's third biggest gas reserves as well as considerable oil fields.
Yet it remains the poorest of the former Soviet republics.
Sandwiched between Russia, to the north, and Iran and Afghanistan, to the south, its position means gas cannot easily be exported to markets.
Now with the fall in oil revenues there are fears that if the situation in Turkmenistan continues, frustration could overspill into civil war.
In the heady days following the collapse of the former Soviet Union the Turkmen government built these 28 luxury hotels in anticipation of a Kuwait-style oil and gas boom.
Today the so-called "Las Vegas" strip is virtually empty, still waiting for its cash rich oil executives.
The former Soviet republic may have huge oil reserves and the world's third biggest gas fields - but it has one major disadvantage: getting its fuel to markets.
Unlike other former Soviet republics such as Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is thought largely inaccessible by Western oil companies and there are richer picking elsewhere.
Its further hindered by its outdated infrastructure; all pipelines point north, a legacy from Soviet days.
Due to a dispute with the Russian oil company Gazprom, Moscow has now closed the pipeline and Turkmenistan can no longer transport its gas north.
Transport through Iran to the south is also a problem because of U-S imposed sanctions.
And the current instability in Afghanistan led the U-S company Unocal to recently shelve its gas pipeline through to Pakistan.
Turkmenistan it appears is hindered on all sides.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"You can either ship gas south through Afghanistan or through Iran or up north through Russia and all of those have political if not natural barriers to the markets that can pay money for the gas."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Barber, President of Unocal, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan
There are proposals afoot to build a pipeline under the Caspian and also east through China - but even if these do come about they won't happen for at least 10 years.
After independence in 1992 President Saparmurad Niyazov, in anticipation of an oil boom, promised every farmer a Mercedes Benz.
Instead wages have not been paid for three to four months and funding to hospitals and universities have been cut so dramatically that departments have closed.
While most people struggle to live, the authoritarian president is spending vast amounts of money on prestigious projects.
Later this month Turkmenistan's very own "statue of liberty" will be completed to coincide with the state's independence day.
A revolving statue of Niyazov will top this stand.
SOUNDBITE:
"In the meantime Turkmenistan remains the poorest out of all Caspian oil states with the shortest life expectancy among all Soviet republics and a complete dependancy of its economy on potential gas exports. Its industry is not developed, its agriculture is very poor, and the general state of the economy is just terrible in the current situation, so hopes for the oil boom and gas is really very much with the current government is hoping for is that is not to become reality the future of Turkmenistan would be gradual descent into an Afghan situation where there is a growing inequalities between the corrupt and the rich elite and the very poor."
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
There are fears that Afghanistan's civil war could overspill into Turkmenistan.
SOUNDBITE:
SUPERCAPTION: Oxana Antonenko, Institute for Strategic Studies
If Turkmenistan is to see financial growth then improved relations between America and Iran may be its only hope.
SOUNDBITE:
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AZERBAIJAN/TURKMENISTAN: OIL PRODUCTION POLLUTES CASPIAN SEA AREA

English/Nat
Seventy years of intensive oil production during the Soviet era has devastated the Caspian Sea and surrounding area.
Constant demands to increase production levels meant workers were under pressure to produce vast amounts of oil with no heed for the environment.
Now local environmental groups are calling on foreign oil companies to help clean up the environment.
And a new study is underway to find out the extent of the devastation and also the main source of pollution.
The Caspian Sea area is one of the world's biggest sources of oil.
For decades, man has exploited the land and sea, with no heed for the environment.
During the Soviet era, oil production was intensive to meet Russian annual targets.
Today the area is a dead zone, devoid of wildlife.
The soil glistens black with oil spilt from dripping pipelines and machinery.
Under the Soviet Union when drilling was completed, oil wells were never sealed, and so oil poured onto the ground.
Environmentalists say that this highly visible devastation may be the least of the problems.
They are concerned about more invisible materials such as radioactive and highly toxic waste leaking into the Caspian.Broken pipes are repaired in a make-shift manner.
But this is not enough to prevent gas hissing out.
The ground is a helter skelter of old rusting pipes. Today no one is quite sure where they lead to and what they carry.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"During the Communist regime, the main goal was the extraction of oil and nothing else. Nobody cared about the environment, and our leaders every year made their plan to the centre in Moscow that we fulfilled the plan for this year, for the month and so on. So that's why the situation is disastering (disastrous).
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of AzerbaijanGreen MovementScrap metal litters the coastline of Turkmenistan.
Although the metal could be recycled, the Turkmen government has made not effort to do anything with it.
Local environmental groups now see foreign oil companies as their only hope to clean up the environment.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We should do a lot together, we should increase the awareness of the population first, to educate the population, to improve the economic situation, to spend money for this for the environment and we should force these oil companies to do something for this."
SUPERCAPTION: Bahar Hadji-Zadeh, board member of Azerbaijan Green Movement
One of the companies, Monument, which operates in Turkmenistan, says it is trying to clean up areas which it has taken over.
Contaminated soil has been removed and scrap metal cleared up.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It's disorderly, it's messy, but most of the damage is superficial and surface related and with a bit of remedial work it can be cleared up.
SUPER CAPTION: Atal Gupta, General Manager of Monument Oil's Turkmenistan operation
Off-shore, oil platforms are allowed to rust.
During the Soviet Union, drilling platforms were never reused, but were left to rot.
Some have imploded, others have keeled over into the sea.
Divers report that the seabed is a mass of metal.
Now a major project in underway to look at the main cause and extent of pollution within the Caspian.
The CaspianEnvironmentProgramme is being funded by several bodies including the European Union, the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility.
It also involves state bodies from each of the countries surrounding the Caspian.
Once the investigation is completed, work will begin on trying to clean up the sea.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The final outcome that we hope for is that there will be an agreement with the five countries on how to further protect the sea and improve the environment of the sea."
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Oil Turkmenistan - Why invest in 2015

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한국기업, 투르크메니스탄서 가스처리 플랜트 준공
This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of diplomatic ties between Korea and Turkmenistan, a central Asian country rich in natural resources.
The two countries have developed closer cultural and economic ties in recent years, with a growing number of Korean companies doing business in the country.
Our Kim Hyesung is in Turkmenistan with more.
Korean and Turkmen engineers working side-by-side.
Welding, tubing, piping,….cracking natural gas into polyethylene and polypropylene, which can be used to make value added goods like plastic.
“As the holder of the world’s fourth largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan is looking to diversify its oil and gas industry, investing tens of billions of U.S. dollars here in Kiyanly on the CaspianCoast, to build a gas plant industrial complex.”
With a population of just five million and 90 percent of its land covered by desert, more than half of Turkmenistan's GDP comes from hydrocarbon gas like natural gas.
A former Soviet Republic that gained independence in 1991, Turkmenistan is trying to reduce its reliance on Russia, opening a new pipeline to China in 2009, and industrializing through infrastructure building and gas plant projects, like this one between Korea, Turkmenistan, and Japan that started in Kiyanly in 2015.
“From design, engineering, construction to commissioning, we planned each stage in advance to make sure this mega project runs smoothly and safely. Once complete, the plant will produce around 50 tons of gas a year, contributing at least 700 to 800 million U.S. dollars to Turkmenistan's economy."
Three kilometers in width and length, at the gas plant site, over twelve-thousand workers from Hyundai Engineering and Turkmenistan's state-run Turkmengas work from Monday to Saturday.
The extremely hot summer weather and occasional sandstorms make working conditions difficult and unpredictable, but seeing each other almost every day, the two countries' people have developed a solid working relationship.
"Working for the last two-and-a-half years with the Hyundai people, who have technological expertise and a great work ethic has been a wonderful experience."
The three billion dollar gas plant project is scheduled to be completed by next year, and Hyundai engineering has already started the handover process, with training programs for local engineers underway.
But it's not an end, rather a new beginning that will likely open up new opportunities for the two countries, as Turkmenistan aims to diversify its oil and gas industries, and Korea seeks to find a new growth engine abroad.
Kim Hyesung, Arirang News, Kiyanly, Turkmenistan.
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Biography

The Refine album was well-reviewed for its honest, no frills metal approach. The band performed live gigs, including a show at the Stryper Expo, but Rinehart received an injury soon after the album release which meant Oil did not perform for nearly a year. Once recovered, Rinehart and Oil returned to performing, being announced as special guests to Disciple in April.

The band recorded a live album Choice Cuts Off the Chopping Block at the First Baptist Church in Downey, California, in November 2002. The record included two new acoustic songs, "This Is My Prayer" and "Medicine Man". When bass guitarist Matthew Joy opted out in May 2003, Oil recruited Jonathan Thiemens of Blind Sacrificies as a temporary replacement. This became permanent in July.